Green MP Keith Locke today congratulated the Tongan Democratic Party for its election victory yesterday. Mr Locke has been actively supporting the Tongan democracy movement for twenty years. He recently visited Tonga in August as part of a team of New Zealand MPs.
It’s great that the NZ Herald, in an editorial this morning , recognises that “New Zealanders stand to lose some hard-won freedoms under a bill Read More
On Friday the great news came through the Liu Xiaobo, jailed for his promotion of the Chinese democracy manifesto, Charter 08, had been awarded the Read More
Under surveillance by the SIS, living with teenage girls and Greenpeace activists above a factory, mushrooms growing in the shower and views of the Sydney Opera house – Green Party MPs recount their most memorable flatting experiences.
Parliament’s Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee has allowed only a very short timeframe for people to make submissions on the Employment Relations Amendment Bill Read More
The Greens didn't go along with the parliamentary vote for three new part-time members of the Independent Police Conduct Authority. This was because one nominee was Richard Woods, the head of the SIS from 1999 to 2006, the man who presided over the Ahmed Zaoui fiasco.
The Auditor-General has come out with a very disturbing report on the NZ Defence Forces defrauding the United Nations over accommodation payments for NZDF seconded Read More